Sundials

Sundials

Brass sundial (British Museum 1972,0104.1). England - 14th C.

Copper sundial (British Museum 1856,0627.155). England - ca. 1400

Leather case for a sundial (Kunstgewerbemuseum F 3077). Italy - ca. 1480 

Ivory sundial (British Museum 1895,0319.2). France - late 16th C.

Sun effigy sundial (British Museum 1897,0512.1). Spain - late 16th C.

Sundial (McCord Stewart Museum Montreal 1983.49). 1543 

Horizontal sundial (Kunstgewerbemuseum F 1593). Germany - 1544

Sundial by Paulus Reinman (McCord Stewart Museum Montreal 1978.53.1). Germany - 1596

Sundial (McCord Stewart Museum Montreal 1984-14). Germany – ca. 1600 

 

Nocturnal Sundials

A nocturnal is an instrument used to determine the local time based on the position of a star in the night sky relative to the pole star.

 

Nocturnal (British Museum 1895,0319.1). Germany - 1551

Nocturnal (Observatory of Paris). Italy - 1584

Nocturnal (McCord Stewart Museum Montreal 1984.13). France – before 1597


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